London, New York, Milan. Three international capitals, three exhibition events, one common denominator: Lineapelle opens 2024 under a slogan intended to be “a participatory and inclusive invitation” addressed to the entire fashion, luxury and design community. A real call to action, as they say in the jargon. Be Part of This Game, in fact, “declines the codes of the sporting world to demonstrate how fashion, style, creativity and their supply chain speak a common language”.
Be Part of This Game: London
The first appointment is along the Thames, where Lineapelle London is staged on 23 January. In the confirmed venue of the Ham Yard Hotel, 43 exhibitors (23 Italian, 20 foreign) will present the first collection launches to a very specific target. “Young designers, start-ups specialising in fashion accessories and brands looking for smart and imaginative solutions and materials”. In London, as in NY and Milan, “under the spotlight will be the trends studied by the Lineapelle Fashion Committee for the 2025 summer season. They have an evocative title: VUJA DE, which is the opposite of DEJA VU. An invitation to free the imagination. A hymn to change and to experience usual situations as if one were seeing them for the first time, to change one’s point of view and imagine a new perspective”.
New York
The second step is overseas. On 31 January and 1 February, the Big Apple will host Lineapelle New York at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan. “The American trade fair outpost”, writes Lineapelle, “has become an essential moment of comparison for American customers in the fashion, architecture and design sectors”. 111 exhibitors, 50 of them Italian, among whom, for the first time, Chirotèca – Rete della Guanteria Napoletana – will be present. “An art, the latter, which will be the protagonist of the exhibition La Casa del Guanto (The house of the Glove, ed), set up at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York”. It is curated by SSIP (Stazione Sperimentale per l’Industria delle Pelli e delle materie concianti).
Lineapelle 103
The third stage will be, as usual, the most eagerly awaited: Lineapelle 103, at Fieramilano Rho from 20 to 22 February. The event will host “1,150 exhibitors (figure updated to 31 December 2023), in line with the February 2023 edition, from 41 countries. It will be a true creative, commercial and cultural platform offering an articulated list of contents”. As is now customary, it will take place in partial concurrence with the fairs of the Confindustria Moda galaxy, scheduled from 18 to 21 February. Namely Micam (footwear), Mipel (leather goods), TheOneMilano (clothing).
All the contents, in brief
At Lineapelle 103, “the leather-oriented fashion shows of Lineapelle Designers Edition and the fashion projects in town will be back, at the Spazio Lineapelle in Piazza Tomasi di Lampedusa”. There will also be the return of two sharing spaces inaugurated during the last edition in September 2023. The first is In the Making. Its Act II is configured as “an interconnected and multidisciplinary area that combines the high craftsmanship of the Italian tradition with the most advanced product engineering, fashion with interior design, technology with art”. The second is “the Science Based Fashion Talks with meetings and debates of industrial interest on science, innovation and the market”.
Then, the novelty: “Lineapelle Interiors / Leather Duets”. This is an exhibition space “designed to highlight the great versatility of Italian leather in the context of interior design. It will host 5 installations where one can discover as many ‘never before seen’ projects, but conceived to be engineered just-in-time”. Lineapelle 103 will also host the customary award ceremony for the Amici per la Pelle competition, “which involves over a thousand students from secondary schools in the Italian leather districts”. It does not end here. Other projects are being defined, while the slogan Be Part of This Game will find a very real declination, in terms of sport, in Hall 24. A real playground where everyone – exhibitors, visitors, guests – will be able to test themselves with a basketball. In short, for Lineapelle 103 get ready to shoot hoops.
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